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Bisquick Apple Coffee Cake

Bisquick Apple Coffee Cake

Can be prepared in 30 minutes or less.

A favorite family ritual growing up was apple coffee cake on Sunday mornings. My dad would prepare it for his six greedy kids, all of us begging for him to pile on the brown sugar.

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Bisquick Apple Coffee Cake

Ingredients

Cake:
2 cups Bisquick mix
2/3 cup of milk or water
2 Tbsp sugar
1 egg
1 tart green apple, cored, peeled, sliced

Topping:
1/3 cup Bisquick mix
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
4 Tbsp butter

Method

1 Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

2 Grease 8" square pan or 9" round pan. Mix cake ingredients. Spread cake batter in pan. Insert apple slices into the batter evenly throughout the cake.

3 Mix the topping ingredients of Bisquick, brown sugar and cinnamon. Spread topping mix over top of batter in pan. Add slices of butter all over the top.

4 Bake 20 minutes or until golden brown, testing with a toothpick.

Serves 4.

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15 Comments

I have read your recipe, and I can't waint to prepare the recipe; it looks very nice!

Posted by: carol on October 24, 2005 7:33 PM

This recipe just didn't work for me. It was quick and easy to make, but didn't taste that great. I ended up with a think layer of cake (that tastes like biscuits) and almost no apple.
On my second try I used half the amount of cake (but the same amount of apple and topping) and cooked it five minutes longer, that made it a bit better. More apple wouldn't hurt. The topping was good though, that doesn't need to be changed. Really though, in the end, no one can make a truly good cake out of Bisquick. It's best to just do it the long way. Elise has another apple coffee cake recipe here

Posted by: Sonya on August 8, 2006 6:40 PM

I stumbled on this and just had to share my own bisquick cake recipe.

One important thing to note is I went light on the sugar in this recipe. Some people might like it with as much as another cup of sugar.

Pumpkin Fruit Cake

INGREDIENTS

1 16 oz can fruit/pears, peaches, apples
1 1/2 cup bisquick
spices
2 eggs
2 tb butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup canned pumpkin
1/2 cup cooking oil

1. Drain fruit. Pour into a 10x2-inch round baking pan or a 9x9x2-inch baking pan. Arrange fruit rounded sides down, in coated pan.

2. Combine flour, pumpkin pie spice, and oil. Also add eggs, add sugar and pumpkin. Carefully spoon over fruit. Spread mixture evenly with back of spoon.

3. Bake in a 350 degree F. oven for 30 to 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool about 5 minutes. Loosen from side of pan; invert onto serving plate. Serve warm. Makes 10 to 12 servings.

Voila you have a very quick and simple bisquick cake that I think tastes alright! Not to mention the oos and aahs it gets when people see the fruit pinwheel I layed in the bottom of the pan on top of the cake!

Posted by: Renee on December 20, 2006 3:56 AM

I made this recipe last night for a Christmas party and it turned out great! Everybody loved the little apple pieces inside and the topping was delicious. The only thing for me was I had to bake it about ten minutes longer, waiting for the middle to be done. Regardless, thanks for the great recipe! :)

Posted by: Danahli on December 23, 2006 8:17 AM

I made this to take for Christmas Eve with my family, and it was wonderful! it seems like a very versatile recipe. I made one substituting halved maraschino cherries that I mixed into the batter before putting it into the pan, which turned out yummy! did have to add about 10 minutes to the cook time, but it was well worth the wait! thanks for the great recipe!

Posted by: rebecca on December 28, 2006 1:30 PM

I made this recipe for a breakfast/brunch potluck. Substituted pear for apple, and I laid the slices on top of the cake batter, pressing them into it slightly so they'd stay in place. Slices from a whole pear were enough for 1-1/2 layers on top of the batter, plus bits to nibble on. The topping covered the pear slices just fine. Everything worked wonderfully, it was indeed very easy and tasted good. Thank you Elise!

Posted by: banana on March 18, 2007 4:20 PM

Hi! Just made this recipe for my girlfriend, I think it is wonderful, In your recipe, You rememberd how your Dad prepared this on Sunday mornings for you, I tell you that brought back so many memories for me, i just had to try it, I am a certified Chef, Not keen to using bisquick, But this was simple, easy and tasted very good, i will recommend it to my cooking class next time i teach! Thank you!

Posted by: MelissaLynn on October 3, 2007 11:11 AM

This is a recipe we make often in our Boy Scout Troop. The scouts love it and it's really easy to make in a dutch oven at out campouts. We had milk and honey to give it a little extra flavor:
http://www.troop765.com/TroopOriginal/AppleBisquickPie.htm

Posted by: piechowski on November 14, 2007 8:27 AM

This recipe was so delicious! I actually didn't have a regular pan, so I used a bundt pan and put the topping on the bottom and put a little batter, apples, batter, and apples on the top and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar. Thanks for sharing :)

Posted by: Hana on January 25, 2008 11:18 AM

I just made this and it was wonderful. I will make this again soon for desert or Sunday morning breakfast before church. A great way to use up the rest of the apples in the fridge. Thanks again.

Posted by: Mary on March 15, 2008 12:20 PM

This was very quick and easy to make. But it was very bland and a little too hard after 20 mins of baking. I think instead of milk, I'll use apple juice and bake it for 15 minutes. The topping was nice, no change needed there. Maybe my apples were too thinly sliced? But that is the fun of trying things out and making your own changes.

Posted by: Roxane on January 21, 2009 10:43 AM

Not bad..... as other commenters have noted; a little bland. This recipe has good potential though. It needs something to give it a little more pizzaz and help overcome that blah biscuit flavor. My next try will be with:
1/2 again as much biscuick + requisite liquid(I'll use buttermilk)
3 apples (at least); I'll begin by placing a layer on the bottom of the pan first, then batter, then the rest jammed on top. then maybe more batter.
I think I'll try tossing the apple slices in additional brown sugar and cinnamin first.
I also think it would be a good idea to double the topping recipe and sprinkle 1/2 in layers or swirl gently into the batter (probably layers.) I figure it'll take about 40-45 min @400 F.
Makes a good, quick easy weekend breakfast..... who hasn't got a box a biskquik kickin' around?

Posted by: eyeballkid on July 5, 2009 1:58 PM

Made this cake this morning just because I had the ingredients on hand. It was great! And very quick to bake,too.

Posted by: Pot Boiler on August 30, 2009 9:16 AM

This wasn't a great cake for me, the batter didn't have enough sugar for me and I don't think I put in enough apples. I prefer Elise's other apple cake. I love this website though lots of great recipes!

Posted by: lillie on October 27, 2009 8:09 AM

I used cranberry juice for the liquid portion and added 1 teaspoon of vanilla for flavor. I used 3 small apples. Lined the bottom of the pan with one layer of apples. Poured batter over, topped with about 2 layers of apples, then finished off as recipe suggested. It was pretty good! I thought that I may have wanted more sugar, but the more I think about it, it was fine the way it was. It turned out better than I had expected and the topping was really good! I ended up putting it in for 30 minutes.

Posted by: Zoe on November 5, 2009 5:25 PM

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